March 12 2007 • 11:06 PM
Tabbed palettes on a second monitor?
Two weeks ago, down at the Creative Suite conference in Miami, I had a conversation with someone who insisted that you can’t dock the side tab panels in InDesign CS2 to a second monitor. I wish I could remember who it was so I could send the person a note, but the short-term memory is getting shorter and shorter.
It took me a couple of days home before I remembered the conversation, and yesterday I tested it out.
I was right, and my un-named person was wrong.
You can easily docked the tabbed palettes in InDesign to a second monitor. Or, I should say I had no problem doing so on a PowerBook G4 using an external NEC monitor. In fact, not only can you dock them, but you can even save the arrangement as a workspace.
Interesting. I run Win XP, CS2, with two video cards and two monitors on an HP tower. I’m able to move palettes to the second monitor and save the setup (that is the default configuration for me).
But, I’m NOT able to actually dock them to anywhere in the second monitor. They have to stay ‘floating’…
Same as Brian here. I can move them easily to a second monitor, but they are floating palettes, not docked, on a Win XP system.
I’m on an Intel Mac and I can dock tabbed panels to the left and right sides of my second monitor, no problem. Pretty cool - I never knew you could do that.
Any chace that it might work differently on a laptop with the external monitor atached and not the same with 2 vid cards on a tower? Ill test it tomorrow but I have never been able to dock mine on my second monitor… and oh how I have wanted to.
As stated, docking tabbed palettes on a second monitor works - regardless of machine or platform.
I presume that those having problems doing so, are dragging the palette frame and not the tab …
… dragging the tab allows palettes to be docked onto each other or to the edge of the screen.
I made sure to drag the tab. I just tried again at work - again on an HP desktop with dual-video cards. Still no luck.
InDesign CS2 tabbed palettes docking on second monitor works fine for me on Intel Mac Pro. Like Rob Hall said, drag tabs, not palette frame.
Didn’t know you could do that until this morning–new work space now saved. I like it!
Works just fine for me on a G5 mac.
Actually it is now working fine on my Dual monitor setup on this PPC mac tower. But after I had moved a couple of pallets it did crash ID (which reminded me of the original troubles from the last time I tried).
This is a great tip – thanks for giving me back my screen!
I use ID maximized on one monitor and can only dock to either side of one screen, not across. For those of you who dock to the second monitor, do you have ID opened across the monitors?
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Moving the tabs instead of the frames was all I needed to do. This is so much better.
I know that CS2 you can dock your palettes to the dual monitor, but how about CS3? I can’t seem to do it or find anyone that can. Has this been eliminated due to the new UI? I wish it can be done. If anyone knows how, please let me know.
I can’t accomplish this in CS3, Windows Vista.
I have a dual monitor setup at my desk and I have issues with InDesign CS3 not allowing me to drag files to the other screen. I can move my tools and everything else over but not the file. Is there some way to make this work?